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StockOpter® v.2.51

 

Date of release: 4 December 2001

Major new features: No major new features were added. This is a maintenance release only. Calculations areas addressed include AMT tax calculations on the Case sheets, and the "Marginal tax bracket" reported on both the Assumption and Case sheets.

Fixes and Enhancements

AMT Calculations

Description: The formula for Available AMT adjustment before sale was incorrectly incorporating the current year AMT adjustment. The negative adjustment that would result from the sale of ISO’s would not be available until the holding period had be met. Consequently the AMTI negative adjustment on sale was incorrect.

Affected scenarios: The following situations are affected by this bug: Qualified exercises in the same year as a qualified sale.

Impact: This bug affected the timing of the reversal adjustment when Incentive Stock Options were sold. The ratio of the current year’s positive AMT adjustment from the exercise of ISO’s to the negative adjustment applicable to ISO shares sold in the same year determined the materiality of this bug. This bug resulted in an understatement of Tentative Minimum Tax in years in which ISO’s were exercised and mature ISO shares were sold.

Marginal tax bracket

Description: The values on this line on both the Assumptions sheet and the Case sheet were reported incorrectly. The program read out of the table for "Single" filing status regardless of actual filing status. This has now been fixed.

Affected scenarios: All cases other than those with a filing status of "Single".

Impact: This bug affected only this output single line; actual tax calculations were NOT affected. Any strategies based or optimized to this number may need review, depending on the client AGI and their filing status. In most cases, the reported number is probably quite close to the correct one.

Audit window display

Description: In some unusual cases, running a "sell to cover" strategy when options are underwater in the final year would result in a spurious error message box appearing on the screen.

Impact: Minimal. This affected the display only, not any calculated or reported number. No numbers, formulas, or calculations were affected by this change

Restricted Stock Plan layout

Description: A separator line was added between adjoining RSP grants, enhancing the visual layout under various "SO View" choices.

Impact: Minimal. This affected the display only, not any calculated or reported number. No numbers, formulas, or calculations were affected by this change

Price Indexer display

Description: The date that is inserted in cell B3 when the "Price Indexer" is run is not cleared with then "Update" button for ‘Stock Price information’ on the Assumptions page is subsequently used. This has been fixed.

Impact: Minimal. This affected the display only, not any calculated or reported number. No numbers, formulas, or calculations were affected by this change.

Help file

Description: Numerous changes were made throughout the Help file to enhance clarity and provide more information. No numbers, formulas, or calculations were affected by this change.

Impact: Minimal. This affected the display only, not any calculated or reported number. No numbers, formulas, or calculations were affected by this change.

NQSO data entry wizard

Description: The incorrect help file page had been brought up for the "Cum cost basis before sale" data entry area. The correct help page now displays. No numbers, formulas, or calculations were affected by this change.

Impact: Minimal. This affected the display only, not any calculated or reported number. No numbers, formulas, or calculations were affected by this change.

 

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